How to delete your wizard friend’s (yeah, right) browser history

Should a wizard ever ask you to do him this favor, here’s how you do it. The instructions for Chrome, Firefox, and IE come straight from Woot!’s page for the T-shirt, and the instructions for Safari on Mac OS come from Yours Truly.

Instructions for Chrome:

Open your browser

Click the Chrome button in the top-right of the browser window

Select History

Click the Clear browsing data button

From the drop down, select the duration of time you want to delete from your history. To delete all history, select the beginning of time

Check the boxes of the data you would like to delete, including Browsing history and Download history

Click the Clear browsing data button

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For Mozilla Firefox:

Open your browser

Click the menu button in the top-right of the browser window

Select History, then Clear Recent History

Select the time range to clear. To clear all browser history, select Everything

Click Clear Now

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For Internet Explorer:

Open your browser

Click the Tools button in the top-right of the browser window

Select Safety, then Delete Browsing History

Check the boxes of the data you would like to delete, including Temporary Internet files and website files, History and Download History

Un-check Preserve favorite website data

Click Delete

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For Safari (on Mac OS)

Open your browser

Select Clear History… from the History menu

Click Clear when the Are you sure you want to clear history? dialog appears

Open Preferences by either selecting Preferences… from the Safari menu or typing ⌘, (the “command” and “,” keys simultaneously)

Select the Privacy tab and click Remove all website data…

Click Remove Now when the Are you sure you want to remove all data stored by websites on your computer? dialog appears